Alice Notley Papers

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2005
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu


Descriptive Summary

Languages: English
Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Alice Notley Papers
Creator: Notley, Alice, 1945-
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0319
Physical Description: 34.35 Linear feet (54 archives boxes, 16 flat boxes, 1 map case folder, and 3 art bin items)
Date (inclusive): 1969-2014
Abstract: Papers of Alice Notley (1945-), an American artist and poet. The collection includes manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, and original artwork.

Scope and Content of Collection

Papers of Alice Notley (1945-), an American artist and poet involved in the New York poetry scene beginning in the mid-1960s. The collection contains correspondence with other prominent poets and writers, typescripts of published and unpublished literary works, notebooks, and Notley's original artwork, including collages, sketches and watercolors. The collection was processed in five major accessions.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 1995
This accession is comprised of notebooks filled with manuscript writings, correspondence with poets and editors, and examples of Notley's visual art, such as collages. Most of the material dates from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Arranged in three series: 1) MANUSCRIPTS & NOTEBOOKS, 2) CORRESPONDENCE and 3) ARTWORK.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 1998
Arranged in two series: 4) MANUSCRIPTS & NOTEBOOKS and 5) CORRESPONDENCE.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 2003
The accession processed in 2003 complements the first portions of the collection and includes additional correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts and artworks. It also contains material related to the production of the literary magazine Gare du Nord. Most of the papers date from the late 1990s through 2001.
Arranged in six series: 6) CORRESPONDENCE, 7) WRITINGS, 8) NOTEBOOKS, 9) GARE DU NORD PRODUCTION MATERIALS, 10) ARTWORK and 11) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 2011
Arranged in three series: 12) CORRESPONDENCE, 13) DREAM NOTEBOOKS and 14) WRITINGS.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 2017
The bulk of this accession dates from 2000 through 2014.
Arranged in five series: 15) CORRESPONDENCE, 16) WRITINGS, 17) NOTEBOOKS, 18) ARTWORK and 19) MISCELLANEOUS.

Biography

Alice Notley was born in 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967, and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1969. She married the writer Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she had two sons, Anselm and Edmund, both poets. After Berrigan's death in 1983, she married the British poet Doug Oliver and relocated to Paris, France.
Notley's writing and art responds to a broad spectrum of American culture. Among the numerous collections of verse that Notley has published are Incidental in the Day World (1973), When I was Alive (1980), Waltzing Matilda (1981), Margaret and Dusty (1985), and How Spring Comes (1981), which received a 1982 San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award. Notley has also written a short autobiography entitled Tell Me Again (1982).
Notley is also a visual artist, and her collection includes original artworks such as collages, watercolors, and sketches. Many of her collages are composed of everyday objects and images and are quite consistent with her poetry in that respect.
Notley was co-editor of the literary magazine Gare Du Nord with Douglas Oliver, publishing five issues over two years (1998-1999). Magazine production ceased in the fall of 1999 when Oliver was diagnosed with cancer; he died the following spring.
Notley has continued to write both prose and poetry, including an epic poem, The Descent of Alette (1992), and the titles Desamere (1995), Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) (for which Notley was a Pulitzer Prize finalist), Disobedience (2001), Coming After (2005), Alma or the Dead Women (2006), In the Pines (2007), Reason and Other Women (2010), Culture of One (2011), Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Benediction (2015) and Certain Magical Acts (2016).
Notley has been recognized by the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and in 2015 Notley was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
She currently resides in Paris.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Preferred Citation

Alice Notley Papers, MSS 319. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Acquisition Information

Acquired 1995-2017.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American poetry -- 20th century
Women poets -- United States
Art, American -- 20th century
Myles, Eileen -- Correspondence
Foster, Edward Halsey -- Correspondence
Messerli, Douglas, 1947- -- Correspondence
Notley, Alice, 1945- -- Archives
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1927 -- Correspondence
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- -- Correspondence
Whalen, Philip -- Correspondence
Waldman, Anne, 1945- -- Correspondence
Scalapino, Leslie -- Correspondence
Padgett, Ron, 1942- -- Correspondence
Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 -- Correspondence

 

Accession Processed in 1995

 

MANUSCRIPTS & NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) MANUSCRIPTS & NOTEBOOKS: One manuscript of a three-act play entitled "Twilight Vision" and Notley's notebooks, which are arranged chronologically from 1969 to 1990. Entries contain descriptions of Notley's day-to-day activities, literary writings, drawings, and meditations on others writers such as Dante, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams.
Box 1, Folder 1

Twilight Vision: A Play in Three Acts

Box 1, Folder 2-8

Notebooks 1969 June-1970 September

Box 2, Folder 1-8

Notebooks 1970 September-1971 October

Box 3, Folder 1-7

Notebooks 1971 October-1972 December

Box 4, Folder 1-7

Notebooks 1973 June-1976 September

Box 5, Folder 1-7

Notebooks 1976 September-1978 November

Box 6, Folder 1

Notebooks 1978 November-1979 April

Oversize FB-117, Folder 1

Notebook 1979 April-October

Box 6, Folder 3-7

Notebooks 1979 August-1980

Box 7, Folder 1-6

Notebooks 1980 March-1981 September

Box 8, Folder 1-6

Notebooks 1980 December-1982 July

Box 9, Folder 1-7

Notebooks 1982-1983 January

Box 10, Folder 1-3

Notebooks 1983 February-November

Oversize FB-117, Folder 2

Notebook 1983 May-November

Box 10, Folder 5-7

Notebooks 1983 June-November

Box 11, Folder 1-5

Notebooks 1983 November-1984 June

Box 12, Folder 1-5

Notebooks 1984 June-1985 January

Box 13, Folder 1-5

Notebooks 1984 December-1985 October

Box 14, Folder 1-5

Notebooks 1985 October-1986 October

Box 15, Folder 1-5

Notebooks 1986 November-1988 June

Box 16, Folder 1-6

Notebooks 1988 June-1989 May

Box 17, Folder 1-4

Notebooks 1989 May-1990

Box 18, Folder 1-2

Notebooks 1990

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: The correspondence series is extensive and includes letters from prominent people in contemporary art and literature such as Joe Brainard, Andrei Codrescu, Edward Halsey Foster, Allen Ginsberg, Douglas Messerli, Eileen Myles, Ron Padgett, Leslie Scalapino, Anne Waldman, and Philip Whalen. Most of the material dates from 1988 to 1994. Letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 19, Folder 1

Abbott, Steve 1992

Box 19, Folder 2

Alson, Sheila 1992 - 1993

Box 19, Folder 3

Baude, Dawn Michelle 1992 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 4

Berkson, Bill 1985

Box 19, Folder 5

Bernstein, Charles 1994

Box 19, Folder 6

Brainard, Joe 1991 - 1993

Box 19, Folder 7

Burckhardt, Rudy 1992 - 1993

Box 19, Folder 8

Carey, Tom 1980

Box 19, Folder 9

Carville, Daragh

Box 19, Folder 10

Castleberry, R. T. 1991

Box 19, Folder 11

Cataldo, Susan

Box 19, Folder 12

Clark, Tom 1994 - 1995

Box 19, Folder 13

Codrescu, Andrei 1993 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 14

Collom, Jack 1993 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 15

Daley, John 1992

Box 19, Folder 16

Di Prima, Diane 1992

Box 19, Folder 17

Dorn, B 1988

Box 19, Folder 18

Equi, Elaine 1989

Box 19, Folder 19

Foster, Edward Halsey 1993 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 20

Ginsberg, Allen 1992

Box 19, Folder 21

Gizzi, Peter 1994

Box 19, Folder 22

Glover, A 1991

Box 19, Folder 23

Grapes, Jack 1992

Box 19, Folder 24

Harryman, Carla 1994

Box 19, Folder 25

Hejinian, Lyn 1994

Box 19, Folder 26

Hollo, Anselm 1992 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 27

Holman, Bob 1993

Box 19, Folder 28

Hornick, Lita 1994

Box 19, Folder 29

Killian, Kevin

Box 19, Folder 30

Koch, Kenneth 1993

Box 19, Folder 31

Kyger, Joanne 1989

Box 19, Folder 32

Laughlin, James 1992

Box 19, Folder 33

Lewis, Joel 1990 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 34

McNaughton, Duncan 1993 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 35

Messerli, Douglas 1993 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 36

Myles, Eileen 1987 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 37

Nauen, Elinor 1992 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 38

Opstedal, Kevin 1994

Box 19, Folder 39

Padgett, Ron 1992 - 1993

Box 19, Folder 40

Pettet, Simon and Rose 1993 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 41

Prisco, Salvatore 1993

Box 19, Folder 42

Raphael 1993

Box 19, Folder 43

Rosenthal, Robert and Kraut, Rochelle 1994

Box 19, Folder 44

Rothenberg, Jerome 1994

Box 19, Folder 45

Saroyan, Aram 1991 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 46

Savage, Tom 1993 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 47

Scalapino, Leslie 1992 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 48

Schiff, Harris 1992 - 1993

Box 19, Folder 49

Schneeman, Elio 1994

Box 19, Folder 50

Schneeman, George

Box 19, Folder 51

Schneidir, David 1991

Box 19, Folder 52

Sparrow, E Carter 1991 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 53

Stanford, David H. (Viking Penguin) 1993 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 54

Stanton, Johnny 1986 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 55

Torregian, Sotere 1994

Box 19, Folder 56

Tranter, John 1993

Box 19, Folder 57

Unidentified 1987 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 58

Waldman, Anne 1991 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 59

Warsh, Lewis

Box 19, Folder 60

Weiner, Hannah

Box 19, Folder 61

Whalen, Philip 1989 - 1994

Box 19, Folder 62

Young, Geoff 1994

 

ARTWORK

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) ARTWORK. Arranged in seven subseries: A) Collages, B) Book Collages, C) Box Collages, D) Fan Collages, E) Mask Collages, F) Sketches and G) Watercolors. Materials in each subseries are arranged alphabetically by title. In cases when a title was not supplied by Notley, a title was created based on a topic sentence or major feature or theme of the work. The subjects of Notley's artworks vary from human portraits, women's figures, still lifes, and landscapes to abstract objects, shapes and colors. Her style is sensuous, lyrical and humorous. She often incorporates traditional elements of Chinese and Japanese art in her collages.
 

Collages

Oversize AB-004-D

Alley Tree

Box 20, Folder 2

Alone - I Pour A Cup

Box 20, Folder 3

Black Butterfly On A Female Body

Box 20, Folder 4

Bloomington: With Red Blush

Oversize FB-110, Folder 2

Bombay Gin

Box 20, Folder 6

But Other Than All That I Want To Hear A Song

Box 20, Folder 7

Came To Dance

Box 20, Folder 8

Chinese Medicine and A Young Lady

Oversize FB-110, Folder 3

Cosomos To Host Chinese

Oversize FB-110, Folder 6

Cross 1980

Oversize FB-110, Folder 1

Distinguished Doodle

Box 20, Folder 12

Do Not Judge A Man By His Action

Oversize FB-110, Folder 4

Drink Chicago (7 Items)

Box 20, Folder 14

For Ted

Box 20, Folder 15

General Sheridan

Oversize FB-110, Folder 5

Heart With One's Own On Escutcheon 1975

Oversize FB-110, Folder 7

Here's a Quiet Tributary Stream to the Snake

Box 20, Folder 18

I Can't Sleep

Oversize FB-110, Folder 8

Light Crutch

Box 20, Folder 20

Little Wilderness

Oversize FB-110, Folder 9

Ming APE

Oversize FB-110, Folder 10

North 1975

Box 20, Folder 23

Our N.Y., N.J.

Oversize FB-110, Folder 11

Pilot Dark

Box 20, Folder 25

Poetry: Aside to My Nephew (4 Items)

Oversize FB-110, Folder 12

Porting

Oversize FB-110, Folder 13

Prestige Status Heartbreakers

Box 20, Folder 28

Punch Out

Oversize AB-002-D

Rose Hips

Box 20, Folder 30

Stamps and Cards

Box 20, Folder 31-50

Special Today, nos. 1-20

Box 21, Folder 1-22

Special Today, nos. 21-42

Oversize FB-110, Folder 14

Special Today 43 (3 Items)

Oversize FB-110, Folder 15

Stop

Oversize FB-110, Folder 16

Train Ride

Box 21, Folder 26

Vacuum, or the Inside of a Neon Light...

Oversize AB-002-D

Verb Rose

Box 21, Folder 28

What I Like About Being Married 1976

Box 21, Folder 29

You'll Never Be That Good

Box 21, Folder 30

You Will Climb Far and High...

 

Book Collages

Box 21, Folder 31

Better Than Love Are You The Man Who Stands

Box 21, Folder 32

Book of Sleep

Box 21, Folder 33

Fate

Box 21, Folder 34

Move Yourself or Opponent to Beach

Box 21, Folder 35

New York: Past and Present

Box 21, Folder 36

Souvenir

Box 22, Folder 1

Tsing Tao Beer

 

Box Collages

Oversize FB-112, Folder 4

A.M. Van Lookeren

Oversize FB-112, Folder 1

B & H

Oversize FB-112, Folder 3

This Colour is Blue

Oversize FB-112, Folder 2

Untitled

Oversize FB-112, Folder 5

Untitled

 

Fan Collages

Oversize FB-113, Folder 1

At 10 Cents

Oversize FB-114, Folder 4

Birds

Oversize FB-114, Folder 3

Chinese Fan

Oversize FB-115, Folder 2

Dancing in the Fire

Oversize FB-114, Folder 2

Diamond Crystal Shaker Salt

Oversize FB-114, Folder 1

Ket

Oversize FB-116, Folder 3

Mr. John Dryden

Oversize FB-113, Folder 4

Needle

Oversize FB-113, Folder 2

Peg's Fan

Oversize FB-116, Folder 2

Red Jacket

Oversize FB-116, Folder 1

Red Rose

Oversize FB-113, Folder 3

Silver Fan

Oversize FB-115, Folder 3

Untitled

Oversize FB-115, Folder 1

Women's Bodies

 

Mask Collages

Oversize FB-111, Folder 3

Black Face With Tears of Pearl

Oversize FB-111, Folder 1

Pink Face

Oversize FB-111, Folder 2

Silver Face

Oversize FB-112, Folder 6

Untitled

Oversize FB-112, Folder 7

Untitled

Oversize FB-112, Folder 8

Untitled

 

Sketches

Box 22, Folder 27

Birds (2 Items)

Oversize FB-110, Folder 18

Chicago (2 Items)

Box 22, Folder 29

Curtain in the Room (2 Items)

Box 22, Folder 30

Flowers

Box 22, Folder 31

Four Bedrooms for Ted (4 Items)

Box 22, Folder 32

Portrait (6 Items)

Box 22, Folder 33

Star Wars (5 Items)

Box 22, Folder 34

Undefined Object

Oversize MC-039-05

Untitled

 

Watercolors

Box 22, Folder 36

Animals (2 Items)

Box 22, Folder 37

Bottles and Glasses (5 Items)

Box 22, Folder 38

Boots

Box 22, Folder 39

Buddha (2 Items)

Box 22, Folder 40

Chair

Box 22, Folder 41

Colour Shade with Poems (5 Items)

Box 22, Folder 42

Fan

Oversize FB-110, Folder 17

Feet (2 Items)

Box 22, Folder 44

Flowers (14 Items)

Box 22, Folder 45

Flower and Poetry (2 Items) 1985

Box 22, Folder 46

For Ted

Box 22, Folder 47

Human Figure (2 Items)

Box 22, Folder 48

Play (Ballet): Boot of... (5 Items)

Box 22, Folder 49

Poetry Project: Robert Grenier & Alice Notley (4 Items)

Box 22, Folder 50

Poetry Reading (3 Items)

Box 22, Folder 51

Portrait (4 Items)

Box 22, Folder 52

Tell Me Again (2 Items)

Box 22, Folder 53

Twenty Poems: Steve Carey (4 Items)

Box 22, Folder 54

Women's Bodies (7 Items)

Box 22, Folder 55

Women's Portraits (7 Items)

Box 22, Folder 56

Watercolor with Poems (14 Items) 1986

Box 22, Folder 57

Watercolor with Poems (8 Items) 1987

Box 22, Folder 58

Undefined Object (2 Items)

 

Accession Processed in 1998

 

MANUSCRIPTS & NOTEBOOKS

Box 23, Folder 1

Close to Me and Closer... (The Language of Heaven) and Desamere - Typescript

Box 23, Folder 2-5

Notebooks 1990 December-1991 December

Box 24, Folder 1-6

Notebooks 1992 February-1993 June

Box 25, Folder 1-6

Notebooks 1993 August-1994 December

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Box 26, Folder 1

Alson, Sheila 1995

Box 26, Folder 2

Alvarez-Maurer, Pansy 1995 - 1996

Box 26, Folder 3

Baude, Dawn Michelle 1995

Box 26, Folder 4

Benson, Steve 1995

Box 26, Folder 5

Berkson, Bill 1996

Box 26, Folder 6

Bloodaxe Books undated

Box 26, Folder 7

Brainard, Joe undated

Box 26, Folder 8

Brook, James 1997

Box 26, Folder 9

Burckhardt, Rudy 1995

Box 26, Folder 10

Cataldo, Susan 1995

Box 26, Folder 11

Chernoff, Maxine 1995 - 1996

Box 26, Folder 12

Clark, Tom 1994

Box 26, Folder 13

Cole, Norma 1995

Box 26, Folder 14

Collaborative Postcard 1995

General note

Includes Jack Collom, Anselm Hollo, Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, Lee Ann Brown, Steven Taylor, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Rose Pettet.
Box 26, Folder 15

Collom, Jack 1995 - 1996

Box 26, Folder 16

Corbett, Bill 1997

Box 26, Folder 17

Creeley, Robert 1996

Box 26, Folder 18

Davis, Jordan undated

Box 26, Folder 19

Eshleman, Clayton 1996

Box 26, Folder 20

Foster, Edwin 1993 - 1997

Box 26, Folder 21

Friedman, Ed 1995

Box 26, Folder 22

Gerstler, Amy 1997

Box 26, Folder 23

Goldman, Judith 1996 - 1997

Box 26, Folder 24

Harryman, Carla 1995

Box 26, Folder 25

Hawkins, Ralph 1996 - 1997

Box 26, Folder 26

Hejinian, Lyn 1994 - 1996

Box 26, Folder 27

Henning, Barbara 1995

Box 26, Folder 28

Hershon, Bob 1995

Box 26, Folder 29

Hillman, Brenda 1995

Box 26, Folder 30

Hollo, Anselm 1995 - 1997

Box 26, Folder 31

Holman, Bob 1992

Box 26, Folder 32

Hoover, Paul 1995

Box 26, Folder 33

Hornick, Lita undated

Box 26, Folder 34

Jones, Patricia Spears 1997

Box 26, Folder 35

Killian, Kevin 1995

Box 26, Folder 36

Koch, Kenneth 1992

Box 26, Folder 37

Kyger, Joanne 1995

Box 26, Folder 38

Lewis, Joel 1994 - 1995

Box 26, Folder 39

McNaughton, Duncan 1995

Box 26, Folder 40

Mesmer, Sharon 1997

Box 26, Folder 41

Messerli, Douglas 1995 - 1996

Box 26, Folder 42

Mikolowski, Ken 1996

Box 26, Folder 43

Myles, Eileen 1995

Box 26, Folder 44

Neil, Julian 1995

Box 26, Folder 45

Nisbet, Jim 1995

Box 26, Folder 46

Padgett, Ron 1994 - 1997

Box 26, Folder 47

Parisi, Joseph 1996

Box 26, Folder 48

Pettet, Simon 1995 - 1996

Box 26, Folder 49

Riley, Denise 1995

Box 26, Folder 50

Salerno, Mark 1995 - 1996

Box 26, Folder 51

Saroyan, Aram 1996

Box 26, Folder 52

Scalapino, Leslie 1995 - 1997

Box 26, Folder 53

Sparrow 1995

Box 26, Folder 54

Stanford, David 1994 - 1996

Box 27, Folder 1

Thomas, Lorenzo 1996

Box 27, Folder 2

Trinidad, David 1996

Box 27, Folder 3

Valaoritis, Nanos 1996

Box 27, Folder 4

Waldman, Anne 1995 - 1997

Box 27, Folder 5

Warsh, Lewis 1996 - 1997

Box 27, Folder 6

Wolf, Reva 1994 - 1995

 

Accession Processed in 2003

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) CORRESPONDENCE: A continuation of the earlier accessions, with materials dating mostly from the late 1990s through 2001. It includes correspondence with many prominent artists and writers, as well as a number of younger writers. The largest files are from Katy Lederer, Eleanor Nauen, Leslie Scalapino, Eleni Sikelianos, and Anne Waldman. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 28, Folder 1

Abbott, Alysia 1999

Box 28, Folder 2

Adnan, Etel 1998 - 1999

Box 28, Folder 3

Alcalay, Ammiel 1997 - 2000

Box 28, Folder 4

Baude, Dawn Michelle 2000 - 2001

Box 28, Folder 5

Benson, Steve 1999 - 2000

Box 28, Folder 6

Bergvall, Caroline 2000

Box 28, Folder 7

Berkson, Bill 1995 - 1998

Box 28, Folder 8

Bernstein, Charles 2000

Box 28, Folder 9

Brook, James 1997 - 1998

General note

Includes excerpts from reclaiming San Francisco, ed. James Brook: "Weather and Repetition."
Box 28, Folder 10

Brown, Pam 1998 - 2001

Box 28, Folder 11

Burckhardt, Rudy undated

Box 28, Folder 12

Burckhardt, Yvonne Jacquette 1998 - 2000

Box 28, Folder 13

Carey, Tom 2000

Box 28, Folder 14

Cataldo, Susan 1998 - 1999

General note

Includes "The Mother Journal" (excerpt).
Box 28, Folder 15

Clark, Angelica 2000

Box 28, Folder 16

Clark, Tom 1998 - 2000

Box 28, Folder 17

Codrescu, Andrei 1999

Box 28, Folder 18

Collom, Jack 1997 - 2000

General note

Includes poems and drawings.
Box 28, Folder 19

Corbett, Bill (editor of Grand Street) 1997 - 1998

Box 28, Folder 20

Creeley, Robert 1998 - 1999

Box 28, Folder 21

Croggon, Alison 2001

Box 28, Folder 22

Dalrymple-Hollo, Jane 1997 - 1998

General note

Includes pen-and-ink artwork.
Box 28, Folder 23

Dickison, Steve 1996

Box 28, Folder 24

Dorn, Ed 1997

General note

Includes "Le Drouot a Metro Richelieu (23 Juin, 1992)".
Box 28, Folder 25

Downing, Brandon 1999

Box 28, Folder 26

Duerden, Richard 1998

Box 28, Folder 27

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau 1999 - 2000

Box 28, Folder 28

Durand, Marcella 2000

Box 28, Folder 29

Elmslie, Kenward 1998 - 2001

Box 28, Folder 30

Eshleman, Clayton 1995 - 1998

Box 28, Folder 31

Evans, Thomas 1997 - 1998

Box 28, Folder 32

Fourcade, Dominique 2000

Box 28, Folder 33

Friedman, Ed (artistic director, The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church) 1997

General note

Includes proof of Notley's "Half-Dome With Symmetrical Angels" (broadside).
Box 28, Folder 34

Frym, Gloria 1998

Box 28, Folder 35

Gizzi, Peter 1998 - 1999

Box 28, Folder 36

Granary Books 1998

General note

Includes proof of cover for Ted Berrigan: An Annotated Checklist.
Box 28, Folder 37

Griffiths, Bill (Eric Mottram Archive) 1998

Box 28, Folder 38

Hall, John and Angela 1999

Box 28, Folder 39

Harwood, Lee 2000

Box 28, Folder 40

Hawkins, Ralph 1998 - 2000

Box 28, Folder 41

Hejinian, Lyn 1998 - 2001

General note

Includes "Figuring Out."
Box 28, Folder 42

Hillman, Brenda 2001

Box 28, Folder 43

Hollo, Anselm and Jane Dalrymple-Hollo 1995 - 2000

General note

See also Dalrymple-Hollo, Jane.
Box 28, Folder 44

Holman, Bob 2001

Box 28, Folder 45

Hunt, Ian 2000

Box 28, Folder 46

Hyner, Stefan 1999

Box 28, Folder 47

Jewel Heart (Center for Tibetan Culture and Buddhist Studies) 1997

General note

Memorial for Allen Ginsburg.
Box 28, Folder 48

Johnson, Nicholas (Etruscan Books) 1995 - 2001

General note

Includes "Certificate that Purchase the Past Easily and On Our Own Terms."
Box 28, Folder 49

Jones, Miriam 1995

General note

Includes "If I had a Pig I Would Cry Over It."
Box 28, Folder 50

Jones, Patricia Spears 1996 - 2000

General note

Includes "All Saint's Day" and "Days of Awe."
Box 29, Folder 1

Joris, Pierre 1996

Box 29, Folder 2

Keelan, Claudia 2000 - 2001

Box 29, Folder 3

Killian, Kevin 1999 - 2000

Box 29, Folder 4

Koch, Kenneth 1996 - 2000

Box 29, Folder 5

Kyger, Joanne 1997 - 2001

General note

Includes "Living a Spiritual Life in the Woods."
Box 29, Folder 6

Lederer, Katy 1996 - 1999

General note

Includes miscellaneous poems.
Box 29, Folder 7

Lewis, Joel and Sandy Flitterman 1998

General note

Includes miscellaneous poems.
Box 29, Folder 8

Lopez, Tony 1999

Box 29, Folder 9

Luoma, Bill 1998

Box 29, Folder 10

Maurer-Alvarez, Pansy 1995 - 2001

Box 29, Folder 11

McNaughton, Duncan 1998

General note

Includes "In the Old City."
Box 29, Folder 12

Mesmer, Sharon 1999

Box 29, Folder 13

Middleton, Peter 2000

Box 29, Folder 14

Mikolowski, Ann 1999

Box 29, Folder 15

Milne, Drew 1997

General note

Includes "The Eclipse of the Ear."
Box 29, Folder 16

Mlinko, Ange 1999

General note

Includes "Irrational Superballs."
Box 29, Folder 17

Moriarty, Laura 1998

Box 29, Folder 18

Moxley, Jennifer and Steve Evans 1999 - 2000

Box 29, Folder 19

Mulford, Wendy 1997 - 2000

Box 29, Folder 20

Myles, Eileen 1999 - 2000

General note

Includes "Seattle Harbor" and "Milk."
Box 29, Folder 21

Nauen, Elinor and Johnny Stanton 1994 - 1999

Box 29, Folder 22

Nguyen, Hoa 1998 - 2000

Box 29, Folder 23

Nisbet, Jim 1999 - 2000

Box 29, Folder 24

Opstedal, Kevin 1994 - 1998

Box 29, Folder 25

Padgett, Ron 1997 - 2001

Box 29, Folder 26

Penberthy, Jenny 1999 - 2001

Box 29, Folder 27

Pettet, Simon 1996 - 2000

Box 29, Folder 28

Prevallet, Kristin 1999

Box 29, Folder 29

Quatermain, Peter and Meredith 2000

Box 29, Folder 30

Riley, Denise 1999 - 2000

Box 29, Folder 31

Riley, Peter and Beryl 1998 - 2001

Box 29, Folder 32

Robb, Graham 2000

Box 29, Folder 33

Rosenthal, Robert 2000

Box 29, Folder 34

Rothenberg, Jerry and Diane 1997 - 1999

Box 29, Folder 35

Russo, Linda 1998

Box 29, Folder 36

Sadoff, Ira undated

Box 29, Folder 37

Salerno, Mark (editor, Arshile) 1998

Box 29, Folder 38

Saroyan, Aram 1996 - 2000

General note

Includes "For Alice Notley."
Box 29, Folder 39

Savage, Tom 2000

Box 29, Folder 40

Scalapino, Leslie 1997 - 1999

General note

Includes "I Romance Comic Book - Noh Play," from Orchid Jetsam and "From Orchid Jetsam - A Dee Goda Mystery."
Box 29, Folder 41

Scalapino, Leslie 2000 - 2001

Box 30, Folder 1

Schelling, Andrew 2000

Box 30, Folder 2

Schiff, Harris 2000

Box 30, Folder 3

Schneeman, Elio 1997

Box 30, Folder 4

Schneeman, Katie and George 1995 - 2000

Box 30, Folder 5

Schneider, David 1999

Box 30, Folder 6

Schuchat, Simon 2001

Box 30, Folder 7

Sikelianos, Eleni 1995 - 2001

Box 30, Folder 8

Skinner, Jonathan 2000

Box 30, Folder 9

Slovak, Paul 2000

Box 30, Folder 10

Smith, Dale 1995 - 1997

General note

Includes "Poetry and Crisis in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons," "Song That I Be Near," "Definition of Art," and "Montana."
Box 30, Folder 11

Spahr, Juliana 1998 - 2001

Box 30, Folder 12

Stanford, David (editor, Viking Penguin) undated

Box 30, Folder 13

Stanton, Johnny 1994

Box 30, Folder 14

Swensen, Cole ca. 1999

Box 30, Folder 15

Talisman House, Publishers (Ed Foster, editor) 1997 - 2000

General note

Includes interview with Alice Notley by Ed Foster.
Box 30, Folder 16

Tarlo, Harriet 1998 - 1999

Box 30, Folder 17

Thesen, Sharon 1999 - 2000

Box 30, Folder 18

Thomas, Heather 1998 - 2001

General note

Includes "Interview with Alice Notley by Heather Thomas."
Box 30, Folder 19

Thomas, Lorenzo 1999

Box 30, Folder 20

Trinidad, David 1998 - 1999

Box 30, Folder 21

Vaughn, Vittoria 1999

Box 30, Folder 22

Waldman, Anne 1994 - 1998

General note

Includes "Notes on Sitting Beside A Noble Corpse...," "Last Days, Hours," "Alice's Street Near the Palace," and other miscellaneous poems.
Box 30, Folder 23

Waldman, Anne 1999 - 2001

General note

Includes "Mild Times You Mean Violent All the Great Men Dying."
Box 30, Folder 24

Whalen, Philip 1999

Box 30, Folder 25

Wheeler, Susan undated

Box 30, Folder 26

Unidentified correspondents

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) WRITINGS: Drafts and typescripts of published books, as well as essays. Included are materials for Homer's Art (1990), Desamere (1995), Descent of Alette (1996), Mysteries of Small Houses (1988), and Disobedience (2001). Arranged chronologically.
Box 31, Folder 1

Diamond Necklace 1977

Box 31, Folder 2

Homer's Art (1990) - "White Phosphorous" drafts ca. 1988

Box 31, Folder 3

Feminine Epic 1995

General note

Drafts. Talk given at New York State Writers Institute, SUNY Albany on October 1995.
Box 31, Folder 4

Close to Me... and Closer (The Language of Heaven) (1995) - First typescript

Box 31, Folder 5-6

Desamere (1995) - Drafts

Box 31, Folder 7

Descent of Alette (1996)

General note

Drafts and discards.
Box 31, Folder 8

Byzantine Parables 1998

General note

Published in Poetical Histories No. 45, Cambridge. Includes page proofs and correspondence.
Box 31, Folder 9

Lauren Baudes Studio exhibition notes 1998

Box 31, Folder 10-11

Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) - Typescripts

Box 32, Folder 1-2

Disobedience (2001) - Early typescript

Box 32, Folder 3-4

Disobedience (2001) - Final typescript

Oversize FB-352, Folder 13

Disobedience (2001) - Cover proofs

Box 32, Folder 5

Penguin Putnam Inc. letter re: Disobedience jacket design 2001 July 12

Box 32, Folder 6

American Poetic Music at the Moment drafts undated

Box 32, Folder 7

Voice - Drafts undated

 

NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) NOTEBOOKS: Includes a number of small and large notebooks dating from roughly 1988-1997. These notebooks contain notes and drafts for various essays and poems published in Disobedience (2001), as well as her book, Coming After (2005), published by Ann Arbor Press. Arranged chronologically.
Box 33, Folder 1

Notebook ca. 1988

General note

Includes notes and drafts for essays published in journals and to be published in Coming After. Also includes the essay "Voice."
Box 33, Folder 2

Notebook 1994 April

General note

Includes notes and drafts of essays published in journals and to be published in Coming After.
Box 33, Folder 3-5

Notebooks ca. 1994 May-1995 May

General note

Includes notes and draft materials for Disobedience.
Box 34, Folder 1

Notes for essays 1996 October

General note

Includes notes and drafts for essays published in journals and to be published in Coming After.
Box 34, Folder 2

Notebook undated

General note

Includes notes and drafts for essays and poems published in journals and to be published in Coming After.
 

GARE DU NORD PRODUCTION MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 9) GARE DU NORD PRODUCTION MATERIALS: Papers related to the publishing of the literary magazine which Notley and her husband, Douglas Oliver, founded and edited from 1997 through 1999. It contains correspondence, manuscripts and paste-ups associated with each issue, and is arranged chronologically by issue. Within each issue, however, the materials are arranged alphabetically according to the authors' last names.
Box 34, Folder 3

Volume 1/1 (1997) - Correspondence and manuscripts 1997 - 1998

General note

Part 1. Baude, Dawn Michelle; Burckhardt, Rudy; Collom Jack; Duncan, Andrew; Griffiths, Bill, Hollo, Anselm; Johnson, Nicholas; Klein, Ishmael; and Lake, Grace (Anna).
Box 34, Folder 4

Volume 1/1 (1997) - Correspondence and manuscripts 1997 - 1998

General note

Part 2. Lederer, Katy; Leonard, Tom; Lopez, Tony; Marriott, David; and Miles, Patrick.
Box 34, Folder 5

Volume 1/1 (1997) - Paste-up 1997

Box 34, Folder 6

Volume 1/2 - Correspondence and manuscripts 1996 - 1998

General note

Part 1. Berrigan, Edmund; Buckhardt, Yvonne Jacquette; Duncan, Andrew; Griffiths, Bill (translations of Judy Kemenczky); Hawkins, Ralph; Healey, Linda; Hollo, Anselm; Jarnot, Lisa; Kyger, Joanne; Milne, Drew; Mulford, Wendy; and Padgett, Ron; and Riley, Peter.
Box 34, Folder 7

Volume 1/2 - Correspondence and manuscripts 1996 - 1998

General note

Part 2. Rothenberg, Jerry; Schneeman, George; Vaughn, Victtoria; Williamson, Aaron; Wing, Alicia; and Zivanavic, Nina.
Box 34, Folder 8

Volume 1/2 (1998) - Paste-up 1998

Box 34, Folder 9

Volume 1/3 (1998) - Correspondence and manuscripts 1998

General note

Part 1. Baker, Tony; Brook, James; Cierzo, Thomas; Crozier, Andrew; Herbert, William; Hollo, Anselm; Howe, Fanny; Joris, Pierre; and Marriott, David.
Box 34, Folder 10

Volume 1/3 (1998) - Correspondence and manuscripts 1998

General note

Part 2. Moorcock, Michael; Notley, Alice; Portugal, Anne; Rosenthal, Bob; Scalapino, Leslie; Wagner, Catherine; and Wilkinson, John.
Box 34, Folder 11

Volume 1/3 (1998) - Paste-up 1998

Box 35, Folder 1

Volume 1/3 (1998) - Psychic questionnaire 1997 - 1998

Box 35, Folder 2

Volume 2/1 (1998) - Correspondence and manuscripts 1998 - 1999

General note

Part 1. Adman, Etel; Ball, David; Burckhardt, Rudy; Clark, Tom; Corcoran, Kelvin, DeWit, Johan; Frym, Gloria; Gladman, Renee; Hall, John; Lewis, Joel; Manson, Peter; Margolis, Elinor; Millet, Laure; Moorcock, Michael; Notley, Alice; Saroyan, Aram; and Schelling, Andrew.
Box 35, Folder 3

Volume 2/1 (1998) - Correspondence and manuscripts 1998 - 1999

General note

Part 2. Sinclair, Ian; Smith, Rod; Staffolino, Chris; and Waldman, Anne.
Box 35, Folder 4

Volume 2/1 (1998) - Paste-up 1998

Box 35, Folder 5

Volume 2/1 (1998) - "Poetry: Love It, Hate It" (questionnaire responses) 1999

Box 35, Folder 6

Volume 2/2 (1999) - Correspondence and manuscripts 1998 - 1999

General note

Part 1. Brook, James; Burnstead, Leslie; Caddel, Richard; Cataldo, susan; Collom, Jack; Conant, Jeff; Corcoran, Kelvin; DuPlessis, Rachel; Griffiths, Bill; Holloway, Rob; Keelan, Claudia; and Luna, Christopher.
Box 35, Folder 7

Volume 2/2 (1999) - Correspondence and manuscripts 1998 - 1999

General note

Part 2. Notley, Alice; Pepper, Karen; Pettet, Simon; Riley, Peter; Robinson, Kit; Skinner, Jonathan; and Sutherland, Keston.
Box 35, Folder 8

Volume 2/2 (1999) - Edited manuscripts and notes 1999

Box 35, Folder 9

Volume 2/2 (1999) - Paste-up 1999

Box 35, Folder 10

Volume 2/2 (1999) - Poetic Risk (questionnaire responses) 1999

Box 35, Folder 11

Miscellaneous correspondence and subscriptions 1997 - 1999

General note

A - Z.
 

ARTWORK

Scope and Content of Series

Series 10) ARTWORK. Arranged in two subseries: A) Fans and Collages, and B) Miscellaneous.
A) Fans and Collages: Works which contain collage-like elements, including a number of fans decorated with paint. Many of the works include everyday objects, such as a key, beads, lace, and stamps, as well as cut-out pieces from magazines. Arranged alphabetically by title.
B) Miscellaneous: Pages from Notley's sketchbooks. Many of these works are done in pen-and-ink and watercolor, but other media are used as well. Also included are flyers for poetry readings which Notley created and works for Ted Berrigan and Douglas Oliver. Arranged alphabetically.
 

Fans and Collages

Box 36, Folder 1

Anniversary card - "For Ted"

General note

Pen-and-ink and collage.
Oversize FB-386, Folder 1

Big fan

General note

Fan with paint and collage (flowers and small fan).
Oversize FB-385, Folder 7

Cigar Box

General note

Wooden cigar box with collage inside (lace, stamps, feathers, coins, etc).
Oversize FB-385, Folder 6

Collage 1985

General note

Collage on cardboard and with red lace heart and painting.
Oversize FB-385, Folder 2

Dark Thought Postcard

General note

Paint, collage text ("You cannot discourage your wingspread").
Oversize FB-388, Folder 2

Fan with wheel

General note

Fan with silver and black paint and collage (gold wheel, green pieces and bird).
Oversize FB-387, Folder 2

Feather flute fan

General note

Silver-painted round fan with tube attached to handle and feather glued to fan.
Oversize FB-385, Folder 8

Four Roses

General note

Painting/collage on wood.
Oversize FB-387, Folder 3

Glass Church

General note

Fan with pieces of glass and picture of church. Collage and paint.
Oversize FB-388, Folder 1

Lo Fan

General note

Fan with gold paint, black lace, marker and collage (LO in wooden scrabble letters, stamps and beads).
Oversize FB-389, Folder 1

Mask

General note

Collage and silver paint (bird-face mask).
Oversize FB-385, Folder 5

Rhythmic Frame

General note

Collage on cardboard. Gold text ("Defies You: The Rhythmic Frame"), black sequins and flowers.
Oversize FB-387, Folder 1

Sculpture with key

General note

Wood with gold paint, collage, beads and key.
Oversize FB-385, Folder 1

Shoes and Panties Collage

General note

Collage and marker on cardboard.
Oversize FB-385, Folder 3-4

Works for Doug - "Commes nous" and Happy Birthday card

 

Miscellaneous

Box 36, Folder 2

1967 Game Calendar - Drawings by Joe Brainard and words by Alice Notley

General note

Presumably not a collaboration - Notley has whited-out the printed texts, providing her own commentary on Brainard's drawings.
Oversize FB-352, Folder 14

Bombay Gin

General note

Pen-and-ink (sketch of woman).
Box 36, Folder 3

Diary of drawings 1983 - 1984

Box 36, Folder 4

Flyers for poetry readings and book covers (designed and painted by Notley)

General note

Also includes watercolors, pen-and-ink drawings, etc.
Oversize FB-352, Folder 15

Large watercolors

General note

On Painter's pallette-shaped paper.
Box 36, Folder 5

Postcards - Pencil, pen-and-ink, paint on printed postcards by Ted Berrigan, George Schneeman, and Dick Jerome ca. 1982

General note

Includes postcards inscribed by Kenward Elmslie.
Box 36, Folder 6

Sketchpad works

General note

Pen-and-ink, crayon and watercolors.
Box 36, Folder 7

Watercolors

Box 36, Folder 8

Works for Doug

General note

Includes birthday cards, collages and drawings.
 

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 11) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS: Flyers and announcements for readings and conferences in which Notley participated, as well as some unidentified items.
Box 36, Folder 9

Readings - Flyers and announcements ca. 1995-1997

Oversize FB-352, Folder 16

Unidentified color copies of painting

 

Accession Processed in 2011

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 12) CORRESPONDENCE: Materials dating primarily from 2000-2010, arranged alphabetically. Some highlights include correspondence with Edmund Berrigan regarding the poems of Ted Berrigan; Leslie Scalapino; Eleni Sikelianos; and Anne Waldman.
Box 37, Folder 1

A, B - Miscellaneous

Box 37, Folder 2

Adnan, Etel 1989-2005

Box 37, Folder 3

Alvarez-Maurer, Pansy 2002-2010

Box 37, Folder 4

Baude, Dawn 2001-2005

Box 37, Folder 5

Berrigan, Edmund 2001-2002

Box 37, Folder 6

Berrigan, Edmund - re: The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan 2001-2005

Box 37, Folder 7

Berrigan, Edmund - re: The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan 2008

Box 37, Folder 8

Brown, Pam 2001-2004

Box 37, Folder 9

C - Miscellaneous

Box 37, Folder 10

Cataldo, Susan 1998-2001

Box 37, Folder 11

Collom, Jack 2001-2008

Box 37, Folder 12

Creeley, Robert 2004-2005

Box 37, Folder 13

D - Miscellaneous

Box 37, Folder 14

Dorn, Jenny 2002-2007

Box 37, Folder 15

Dubris, Maggie 2002-2003

Box 37, Folder 16

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau 2001-2004

Box 37, Folder 17

Evans, Steve 2001-2004

Box 37, Folder 18

F - Miscellaneous

Box 37, Folder 19

Fagin, Betsy 2003-2004

Box 37, Folder 20

Foster, Ed 2001-2005

Box 37, Folder 21

G - Miscellaneous

Box 37, Folder 22

Gizzi, Peter 2003-2004

Box 37, Folder 23

Gladman, Renee 2002-2006

Box 37, Folder 24

H - Miscellaneous

Box 37, Folder 25

Hollo, Anselm 2001-2003

Box 37, Folder 26

J, K - Miscellaneous

Box 37, Folder 27

Keelan, Claudia 2002-2004

Box 37, Folder 28

Koch, Kenneth (About Koch) 2000-2003

Box 37, Folder 29

Levitsky, Rachel 2002

Box 37, Folder 30

Lewis, Joel 2004-2005

Box 37, Folder 31

M - Miscellaneous

Box 37, Folder 32

Mesmer, Sharon 2002

Box 37, Folder 33

Mikolowski, Ken 2002-2004

Box 37, Folder 34

Moure, Erin 2003-2005

Box 37, Folder 35

Moxley, Jennifer 2003-2009

Box 37, Folder 36

Myles, Eileen 2001-2005

Box 37, Folder 37

Nelson, Maggie 2002-2004

Box 38, Folder 1

O, P, Q - Miscellaneous

Box 38, Folder 2

Padgett, Ron 2001-2007

Box 38, Folder 3

Pettet, Simon 2001-2009

Box 38, Folder 4

Pollet, Sylvester 2002-2005

Box 38, Folder 5

R - Miscellaneous

Box 38, Folder 6

Rifkin, Libbie 1999-2003

Box 38, Folder 7

Riley, Denise 2000-2005

Box 38, Folder 8

S - Miscellaneous

Box 38, Folder 9

Samuels, Lisa 2003-2010

Box 38, Folder 10

Scalapino, Leslie 2001-2005

Box 38, Folder 11

Schiff, Harris 2002-2008

Box 38, Folder 12

Schneider, David 1989-2008

Box 38, Folder 13

Schuchat, Simon 2002-2005

Box 38, Folder 14

Sigo, Cedar 2002-2008

Box 38, Folder 15

Sikelianos, Eleni 2001-2005

Box 38, Folder 16

Skinner, Jonathan (ECOPOETICS) 2002

Box 38, Folder 17

Spahr, Juliana 2001-2002

Box 38, Folder 18

Steinhoff, Eirik 2002-2004

Box 38, Folder 19

T- Miscellaneous

Box 38, Folder 20

Thomas, Heather 2001-2008

Box 38, Folder 21

Timmons, Susie 2000-2008

Box 38, Folder 22

Tyson, John 2002-2005

Box 38, Folder 23

van den Beukel, Karlien 2002-2003

Box 38, Folder 24

W, X, Y, Z - Miscellaneous

Box 38, Folder 25

Waldman, Anne 1997-2008

Box 38, Folder 26

Ward, Diane 2002

Box 38, Folder 27

Miscellaneous Correspondence - Unidentified

Box 38, Folder 28

Correspondence re: Douglas Oliver's passing

Box 39, Folder 1

Correspondence re: Sept. 11

Box 39, Folder 2

Correspondence re: Transatlantic HOWL 2004

Box 39, Folder 3

Blurb manuscripts and correspondence

 

DREAM NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 13) DREAM NOTEBOOKS: Twenty-one small and large notebooks dating from 1995-2008. These notebooks are arranged chronologically and contain Notley's recollections of her dreams.
Box 39, Folder 4-10

Dream notebooks 1995 January-1999 September

Box 40, Folder 1-7

Dream notebooks 1999 September-2003 July

Box 41, Folder 1-7

Dream notebooks 2003 July-2008 December

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 14) WRITINGS: Drafts and typescripts of Notley's published books, and some essays. Most of the writings date from 2005-2011 and include City Of (2005), Coming After (2005), Alma, or the Dead Women (2006), In the Pines (2007), and Above the Leaders (2008), Reason and Other Women (2010), Culture of One (2011) and Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011) and others.
Box 42, Folder 1

Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (1979)

Box 42, Folder 2

Anne's White Glove 1985

Box 42, Folder 3

What Can be Learned from Dreams? 1991

Box 42, Folder 4

City Of (2005)

Box 42, Folder 5-9

Coming After (2005)

Box 43, Folder 1-3

Coming After (2005)

Box 43, Folder 4-8

Alma, or the Dead Women (2006)

Box 44, Folder 1-3

Alma, or the Dead Women (2006)

Box 44, Folder 4

In the Pines (2007)

Box 44, Folder 5

In the Pines (2007) and Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011)

Box 44, Folder 6

Above the Leaders (2008), talk - "Music and Poetry", and notes for Ed Dorn essay

Box 44, Folder 7

Above the Leaders (2008)

Box 44, Folder 8

Reason and Other Women (2010)

Box 45, Folder 1-6

Reason and Other Women (2010)

Box 46, Folder 1

Reason and Other Women (2010)

Box 46, Folder 2-7

Culture of One (2011)

Box 47, Folder 1-3

Culture of One (2011)

Box 47, Folder 4-8

Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011)

Box 48, Folder 1-3

Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011)

Box 48, Folder 4

Beginning with a Stain undated

Box 48, Folder 5

The Book of Dead undated

Box 48, Folder 6

Homer and Postmodern War undated

Box 48, Folder 7

Notes and drafts of essays on bp nichols, dreams and The Tulsa School undated

Box 48, Folder 8

Testament: 2005 undated

Box 48, Folder 9

Miscellaneous writings

Box 48, Folder 10

Ephemera

 

Accession Processed in 2017

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 15) CORRESPONDENCE: Includes letters exchanged with prominent artists and writers such as Jack Collom, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Anne Waldman and Philip Whalen. Materials date mostly from 2003 through 2014. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 49, Folder 1

Alette in Oakland correspondence with David Brazil, Jane Gregory, and Alana Siegal 2014

General note

Includes program for "Alette in Oakland" and "Anne's White Glove." Includes "Gloves Dreams."
Box 49, Folder 2

Alvaerz, Pansy Maurer 2007-2014

Box 49, Folder 3

Berrigan, Edmund and Anselm Berrigan 2008 March 6-7

General note

Emails and notes for The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan.
Box 49, Folder 4

Collom, Jack A. 2012 March-2015 February

General note

Includes "The Book," a work in progress.
Box 49, Folder 5

Dewhurst, Robert 2015 May 13-16

General note

Includes correspondence related to interview for Bomb magazine. Includes early versions of interview.
Box 49, Folder 6

Dipippo, Al 2007 January-2012 July

Box 49, Folder 7

Eileen 2008 June 6-7

Box 49, Folder 8

Hall, Phil 2011 April-July

Box 49, Folder 9

Hejinian, Lyn undated

Box 49, Folder 10

Keelan, Claudia 2013 August-September

General note

Includes correspondence related to interview on collage in The Volta.
Box 49, Folder 11

Knief, Matthias 2014 May 9

General note

Includes correspondence and program for the 2014 Berlin Poesie Festival.
Box 49, Folder 12

Kuhfeld, Jemimah 2008 December 6-2014 October 12

Box 49, Folder 13

Morris, Sawnie 2011 May

General note

Includes correspondence related to interview on "Dream to Poem," unpublished interview.
Box 49, Folder 14

Murray, Beth 2011 October 15-2002 July 1

Box 49, Folder 15

Need, David 2012 May-August

General note

Includes correspondence and interview on "Dream, Trance, and Form" published in Hambone.
Box 49, Folder 16

Nodland, Jayne 1969 October-November

General note

Letters for Ted Berrigan.
Box 49, Folder 17

Padgett, Ron 1965 April 11-2005 December

General note

Includes three missives/gifts for Ted Berrigan.
Box 49, Folder 18

Peková, Olga 2013 March 21-May 9

Box 49, Folder 19

Power, Allison 2014 February-April

Box 49, Folder 20

Scalapino, Leslie 2003 March 14-2008 November 21

Box 49, Folder 21

Slovak, Paul (Editor, Penguin Group) 2010-2011

General note

Includes correspondence regarding the publication of Culture of One.
Box 49, Folder 22

Talvaz, Anne 2013-2014

General note

Includes correspondence regarding the translation of Negativity's Kiss.
Box 49, Folder 23

Waldman, Anne 2004 May 21-2008 March 19

Box 49, Folder 24

Whalen, Philip - Valentine for Alice Notley 1979 February 21

Box 49, Folder 25

Miscellaneous A-Y 1993-2013

 

NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 16) NOTEBOOKS: Small and large notebooks, dating from roughly 2000 through 2012, containing ideas and drafts for essays and poems. Arranged chronologically.
Box 50, Folder 1-7

Notebooks 2000 May-2006 December

Box 51, Folder 1-7

2006 December-2011 August

Box 52, Folder 1-2

2010 December-2012 November

Box 52, Folder 3

Address book belonging to Ted Berrigan undated

Box 52, Folder 4

Address books belonging to Alice Notley ca. 1985

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 17) WRITINGS: Drafts and typescripts of Notley's published books of poetry. Included are materials for Benediction, Certain Magical Acts, Culture of One, Negativity's Kiss, Iphigenia, Reason and Other Women and a broadside from "The Speak Angel Series." Arranged chronologically.
Box 52, Folder 5

American Memories, Melbourne (Not Quite After Hope Mirrlees) undated

General note

Author unknown. Includes quote from Above the Leaders by Alice Notley.
Box 52, Folder 6-9

Benediction - Drafts

General note

Contains material cut from published version.
Box 52, Folder 10

Certain Magical Acts - Drafts

General note

Includes drafts of "Private Life: the Names."
Box 53, Folder 1-3

Certain Magical Acts - Drafts

General note

Includes a prose diary cut from final draft.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 5

Culture of One - Mock-up 2010 June 30

Box 53, Folder 4

Negativity's Kiss - Draft with notes

Box 53, Folder 5

Iphigenia - Draft

Box 53, Folder 6-7

Reason and Other Women - Early draft

General note

Contains material cut from published version.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 9

The Speak Angel Series

General note

Signed broadside by Alice Notley.
Box 53, Folder 8

Miscellaneous manuscript materials undated

 

ARTWORK

Scope and Content of Series

Series 18) ARTWORK. Arranged in two subseries: A) Fans and Collages, and B) Other Artwork.
A) Fans and Collages: Arranged alphabetically by descriptive title. Includes wooden and paper fans, and cardboard decorated with paint, drawings, clippings and other embellishments. Many of the works include everyday objects such as beads, shells, fabric, stamps, and clippings.
B) Other Artwork: Arranged alphabetically by artist. This series contains both artwork by Notley and other artists such as Bill Berkson, Guy Bernard, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Donna Dennis, Anselm Hollo, Ron Padgett, Adam Saroyan, George Schneeman and Anne Waldman, and includes some collaborations between Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett, Ron Padgett and George Schneeman, and George Schneeman and Anne Waldman. Materials include drawings, watercolors, and work from Notley's sketchbooks.
 

Fans and Collages

Oversize FB-554, Folder 1

Fan collage - "Whatever breaks owns the universe whatever has nothing now"

General note

Black stars, paint, various clippings on wooden oriental fan.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 2

Fan collage on paper - Birds, red feather, "Marque Deposée," Needles Boat Racing Club

Oversize FB-554, Folder 3

Fan collage on paper - "Purchase of You"

General note

Drawn faces, Indian fabric, jewel embellishments.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 4

Collage works on cardboard - "Fuck gold come in my heart"/"Implements door in a house basement"

General note

Gold foil, leaves, clippings, various embellishments.
Oversize FB-555, Folder 1

Fan collage - Heart of Darkness

General note

Paper collage with shell, beads and embellishments on wooden oriental fan.
Oversize FB-555, Folder 2

Fan collage - Solanum rostratum

General note

Clippings of flower images and embellishments on wooden oriental fan.
 

Other Artwork

Box 54, Folder 1

Berard, Guy - Cover art for "Homer's Art"

Box 54, Folder 2

Berrigan, Ted - "Three places"

Box 54, Folder 3

Berrigan, Ted and Ron Padgett - Collaborative drawings

Oversize FB-554, Folder 5

Brainard, Joe

General note

"Hi!" Original "C" comic; and list.
Box 54, Folder 4

Dennis, Donna

General note

Includes cover art for Berrigan's "So Going Around Cities."
Box 54, Folder 5

Hollo, Anselm 2000 March

General note

Includes broadside from "Guests of Space," and printed photos of Anselm Hollo and Alice Notley.
Box 54, Folder 6

Notley, Alice - Culture of One - Watercolors and collage

Oversize FB-554, Folder 6-8

Notley, Alice - Culture of One - Watercolors and collage

Box 54, Folder 7

Notley, Alice

General note

Drawings used in the publication of "The End of the Far West" by Frank O'Hara.
Box 54, Folder 8

Padgett, Ron and George Schneeman - "A glass of orange juice" 2001 February 27

Box 54, Folder 9

Saroyan, Adam, Ted Berrigan, and Bill Berkson

General note

Various artwork. Includes "The Night Tie" and an untitled piece by Adam Saroyan, three works by Ted Berrigan, and a drawing of William de Kooning by Bill Berkson.
Box 54, Folder 10

Schneeman, George

General note

Includes cover art for Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 10

Waldman, Anne and George Schneeman

General note

Various drawings and printed materials.
 

MISCELLANEOUS

Box 54, Folder 12

Berrigan, Ted and Alice Notley Poetry Readers 1971 July and undated

General note

Includes broadside, postcards, and flyer.
Box 54, Folder 13

Blurbs/reviews of fellow poets undated

General note

Includes drafts of blurbs for Lyn Hejinian, Nicholas Johnson, Beth Murray, Anna Joy Springer, Ed Dorn, David Schneider, Anne Waldman, Elizabeth Willis, Bill Kushner, Edwin Torres, and Celia Dropkin.
Box 54, Folder 14

Essay on Post-Olsonian Epic by Charles Olson

General note

Speech given at Prague Poetry Festival and published in VLAK.
Box 54, Folder 15

Events

Box 54, Folder 16

Flyer for Unterberg Poetry Center, reading series 2011 April-May

Box 54, Folder 16

Interview undated

Box 54, Folder 17

It's Me and the Paint and What I'm Looking at I Don't Think About it That Way - Drafts undated

Box 54, Folder 18

On the Poetry Talent - Drafts of talk given at Poets House undated

Box 54, Folder 19

Photographs of Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan ca. 1975